Nature Denkmal

Japanese: Naturdenkmal
Nature Denkmal

…Humboldt explored various parts of equatorial America from 1799 to 1804. In 1800, he was amazed to see a giant tree called Zaman del Guay in the village of Turmelo in Venezuela, which was 20 meters tall, had a trunk diameter of just under 10 meters, and a crown diameter of over 60 meters. Its leaves resembled those of the silk tree, and he declared that anyone who damaged such natural monuments would be severely punished in this region, which had no human monuments. French author FR de Chateaubriand also used the term natural monument in 1802, and German nature conservationist H. Conwentz (1855-1922) defined natural monuments as "primitive forests, plant communities, and other natural materials such as plants, animals, and minerals that have remained in a region since ancient times and that exist today almost entirely unaffected by human activity, despite changes in the surrounding conditions." …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Naturdenkmal" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…フンボルトは1799年から1804年にかけて赤道アメリカの各地を探検して歩いた。1800年ベネズエラのツルメロという村で樹高20m,幹の直径10m弱,樹冠の直径が60m以上もあるザマン・デル・グアイと呼ばれるネムノキの葉に似た葉をもつ巨木を見て感嘆し,人文記念物のないこの地方では,こうした天然記念物Naturdenkmalを損傷する者は厳罰に処せられる,といったのがその嚆矢(こうし)であるとされている。またフランスの作家F.R.deシャトーブリアンも02年に天然記念物ということばを用いているし,ドイツの自然保護運動家コンウェンツH.Conwentz(1855‐1922)は〈昔から一つの地方に残ってきた原始林,植物群落ならびにその他の草木および動物,鉱物いっさいの天然物で,周囲の状態が変化したにもかかわらず,それだけはほとんど人為の影響をこうむらずに今日存在しているもの〉を天然記念物と定義している。…

※「Naturdenkmal」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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